The outsider?
He must have been an exiled criminal in the past.
That's the only possibility.
Could it be that the stone statues came back to life?
How is that possible?
Even if it's unlikely,
was Kohaku really the one who brought that outsider here?
-We're not sure about that yet-- -No. It was her, Chief.
It was Kohaku.
Jasper, didn't you hear it from Ginro too?
Don't tell such obvious lies for her.
That stupid girl.
I've already disowned her
and she keeps violating the rules.
She's out of line.
Ruri.
Senku. Tell me the way
to make the cure-all drug!
I will defeat Ruri's sickness!
As long as it can cure Ruri,
I'm willing to help in any way I can!
Lady Ruri.
I'm so worried.
Her sickness is cured!
Long live science!
I want to join the Kingdom of Science!
I can see
that guy's evil motives in saving Ruri.
I really don't know if he's a gentleman or a despicable man.
But I think he's just a man in pursuit of reason.
What the Kingdom of Science wants to make
is antibiotic.
An ultimate medicine that can eliminate bacteria in the human body.
Since it was invented at the beginning of the 20th century,
it saved billions of lives.
We can't conduct blood tests here
and we don't even know what kind of illness it is.
But it's still worth a try.
-Okay. Let's make it right away then! -What do you need?
We're missing all kinds of stuff.
Let me finish first.
There are two main ways of creating the cure-all drug.
We can make penicillin from living things through the biological route.
Or we can make sulfa drug from rocks through the stone route.
Wait, Senku.
Living things? Rocks?
How can we make medicine out of them?
The most well-known way is to extract penicillin from green mold.
But through the biological route, making penicillin in Stone World
would be a crazy game of chance.
"How lucky that I stumbled upon
the ten billion times super powerful green mold!"
We can only torment ourselves by relying on luck.
Yes!
"God, please give us penicillium."
We can only keep on praying for it.
Meanwhile, making sulfa drug through the stone route,
requires a lot of determination and manpower.
But even in this Stone World,
I guarantee ten billion percent
that we can make the cure-all drug.
In that case, we have our answer!
That's right, Chrome.
We're not gods and we're not geniuses.
We can only be diligent and work hard.
We'll be making everything step by step.
STRONG MAGNET, COPPER, PHOSPHORUS
ELECTRICITY
Let's take the stone route.
We must solidly work our way through each step
and transcend two million years of history
in one go.
SALT, SODIUM HYDROXIDE
This is the roadmap of making the cure-all drug.
GOAL: ANTIBIOTIC, THE CURE-ALL DRUG
Seriously? Incredible!
Let's start with this "iron" stuff.
By the way, what is iron?
Explain it to me in detail.
That's not easy at all.
Dr. Senku's sorcery science class?
I don't think I'll be able to understand even if I listen.
Seriously? Incredible!
So Earth rotates on its own? Amazing!
Yes, it does.
That's strange.
Why am I not being thrown off the branch then?
That's because of gravity.
I knew it was strange.
No wonder some stars don't move at all.
The North Star?
It's a very useful star that's ten billion percent true north.
Remember it well.
Is that so?
You say that it's the "true north," but I feel like it's off.
How is that possible? At most, it would just be slightly…
Is it because the Earth's axis changed?
The whole planet has tilted slightly over the past 3,700 years.
Now, it's 5,739 AD.
The North Star's position has changed.
No wonder my sextant couldn't determine the direction on the way to Hakone.
And I call myself a scientist. What a joke.
I can't believe I missed such an important thing.
Even if you don't have a definitive idea,
you noticed it faster than me.
I'm such a hopeless guy.
Senku,
I don't think you're a hopeless guy.
I'm not trying to sell myself short.
It's just that I appear calm on the outside,
but I actually haven't caught up with the current environment.
It never hit me until now
how insanely long 3,700 years are.
How did you know that the North Star's position is off?
So even the great Senku doesn't know about this rock!
It's an awesome stone that I picked up on Bald Mountain.
Hang it or float it on water, it somehow always points to the north!
Marvelous, right?
It's a magnet.
So you know what it is. Damn it!
Chrome, good going.
As long as we have magnets…
Look at how much it picked up
all this suspicious black sand!
The first step in the roadmap for the Kingdom of Science,
the Iron Age has finally kicked off.
This is so exciting.
By the way, the lioness is wonderful.
Is everyone in your village like her?
We have a few strong gorillas,
-but Kohaku's the only agile gorilla. -I told you I'm not a gorilla!
Hey, I'm the only one collecting the stuff!
Get to work, you two.
We're already lacking in manpower.
-I'm sorry. -I'm sorry.
IRON SAND OBTAINED!
It'll be dark soon and we just collected this much.
Should we get some help from the villagers?
The villagers think that you're both suspicious sorcerers.
Unfortunately, no one will come to help us.
Watermelon?
Suika?
Why are you here?
Did you follow us here?
That person's name is Suika?
I think it's her nickname.
It's because of the watermelon rind on her head.
Hey, Suika!
I can't believe you took my magnet!
Iron sand?
I want to help too.
I always wear this thing,
so I can't help others.
When I grow up, it would surely be the same.
-So, when I meet someone who needs help-- -All right, enough talking.
Thank you very much.
Everyone is welcome in the Kingdom of Science.
We need all the help we can get.
A shortie like you would be ten billion times better
at gathering the iron sand.
I'm counting on you, Suika.
He's the first person
who didn't ask me why I'm wearing this.
He realized that I don't want others to see my face,
so he didn't ask me!
You don't know Senku well then.
You think too highly of him.
As long as you can help, he doesn't care what you look like.
I'm going to gather all the black sand!
-Floating and sinking… -What are you? Momotaro?
Be careful, don't drown.
You don't know Dragon Quest and Monster Hunter,
yet you know Momotaro?
Who did you hear that from?
Senku, do you know Momotaro too?
Ruri told us many stories.
Come to think of it, how do you know about gorillas?
Are they out in the wild?
I've never seen a living one before.
Isn't there a gorilla in Momotaro?
No, it doesn't!
Didn't he use millet dumpling to make friends?
A bear, a lion, a gorilla, and an alligator.
What kind of violent Momotaro story is that?
They used an easy-to-understand story
to make them aware of the danger of wild animals?
I also heard many stories from Ruri.
Come to think of it,
I learned the complex words from Ruri.
Ruri.
Who exactly is she?
I'm suddenly interested in this woman named Ruri now.
In that case,
I must make the cure-all drug for her.
You're interested in Ruri?
What does that mean, Senku?
Senku. Dr. Senku.
I think Chrome likes Ruri.
I see.
There you go.
Chrome is so childish.
I like how oblivious he is.
Hey, what are you talking about?
Damn it! Who are you calling childish?
With these black sands,
we can make iron from it?
That's right.
Just mix iron sand and charcoal at a ratio of four to one and heat it.
What? That's easy.
It's not as easy as you think.
It's not the same as making pottery.
Burning firewood would only produce
a maximum temperature of 700 degrees Celsius.
In order to turn iron sand into iron,
the required temperature is 1,500 degrees Celsius.
That's not even close enough.
What should we do?
Blow air to it like crazy.
We have to give it as much oxygen as we can.
Keep blowing air to it
and double the flame's damage output from 700 to 1,500.
This thing blows air?
With such a convenient tool,
I think I can do it by myself.
Dream on.
There are never enough people to do it.
Damn it!
I can't move my arms anymore!
Don't stop, the temperature will drop!
How many minutes longer do we have to do this?
I think around twenty to thirty hours?
-Making iron is insane! -Making iron is insane!
Don't force yourself, Suika.
Take a rest.
I knew it.
I'm the only useless person here.
It looks like they are up to something really grueling.
I…
I'll help them out--
No, Ginro!
You can't leave your post.
Rules are rules.
What the heck?
He made you a gold spear.
-I want a silver one too. -Is that your reason?
Ginro, you're terrible!
-Let's switch spears then. -No.
I won't insist on a silver spear to match my name.
-Your gold spear is fine! -No.
Increasing manpower is our priority.
We have to increase the population of the Kingdom of Science.
Silver spear…
I knew it.
We can get Ginro to join us soon.
All right. This works in our favor!
In order to get manpower,
-use science as bait. -Use science as bait.
What kind of bait are you talking about?
But not everyone in the village likes shiny spears.
We need to collect information.
We must know what they want.
I'm very good at that.
Because I can turn into an ordinary watermelon
and go anywhere silently!
You're really something.
All right, in order to get the manpower to make iron,
we'll dispatch the Great Detective Suika.
Yes. We're counting on you, Great Detective Suika.
"Great Detective Suika"?
I want to help everyone!
So where did that foreigner go?
The one Kohaku supposedly brought in.
He's staying in Chrome's storage room.
As long as he doesn't come into the village,
the elder isn't planning to make a big deal out of it.
I agree with that too.
But what if he wants to do something bad?
-If he's a bad man, I'll kill him. -Yes.
This way, Ruri will fall in love with me.
Yes.
Is that man strong or not?
Isn't that the point?
Is that so? I don't care about that at all.
The most important thing is his looks.
A man's looks and personality don't matter.
He just needs to hunt well.
Hey, the three of us like different types of men.
Why are we all still single?
Fresh fish is so delicious.
Yes, the meat is very firm.
Grilled fish?
I'm tired of eating it.
I eavesdropped on what everyone might want.
First, Garnet, Sapphire, and Ruby. The three dazzling sisters.
They're the most beautiful women in the village.
What the three of them want most is…
It'd better be something that can be made with science in this era.
Boyfriends!
There you go. Something science can never make!
A strong man.
A handsome man.
A man who can put food on the table.
They are so honest with their desires.
Senku, the way I see it,
you are quite good-looking.
But I don't think you'll fit Sapphire's standards for a handsome man.
Look at them saying whatever they want.
This is the problem with women.
That's why I hate women.
You're so childish, Chrome.
Ruri and I are both women. Do you hate us?
Kohaku, I don't see you as a woman.
You're a gorilla after all.
I'm sorry.
I think we have a chance with the one who wants someone to feed her.
What does she want?
Food like fish.
Speaking of food,
the village's biggest glutton, Ganen,
is getting tired of eating grilled fish.
-He's trying to find new food. -I'm tired of eating fish.
You're amazing, Great Detective Suika.
You easily found a scientific bait
that can let us get more allies.
Could it be that you want to cook?
That has nothing to do with science, right?
Who says it's not?
Food is science.
Besides, where do you think the flavor
from the fish you eat daily comes from?
It's from glutamic acid and amino acid.
Suika, what are you holding?
This thing
is my friend, Chalk, most favorite toy,
dog-teasing grass.
You mean wild foxtail millet.
With that, perhaps we can make it.
Something that humans in the old world love.
The most delicious food in the world.
We're making gourmet survival food from scratch.
This is so exciting.
You can't be saying that
this wild foxtail millet is edible.
Count me out.
We can't eat it like this.
So I must whack it until the husks are removed.
Wild foxtail millet is ten billion percent good grain.
It's the ancestor of rice.
It looks filthy.
It's so hairy.
It's a cycle of inspiration
and trial-and-error.
Food is a perfect example of science.
Now we have wheat flour…
No, the wild foxtail millet flour
is done!
Add in a wild bird's egg
and tenderize it using potassium carbonate.
In the fourth century,
an unknown Mongolian man discovered this scientific food by coincidence.
Chrome,
a fool who wants to try everything just like you
also existed in the fourth century.
-This aroma… -This aroma…
We had a name
for this insanely good scientific food 3,700 years ago.
It's called "ramen."
But this is actually foxtail millet, isn't it?
Yes.
I'll make sure it's safe!
As a sorcerer,
I should try new things without hesitation!
It's delicious!
Ramen is insane!
It's my first time tasting such a smooth, chewy texture!
Unbelievable. I can't believe that this kind of food exists in this world!
Let me try it too.
The first decent meal in 3,700 years.
It's not authentic at all.
After all, the base ingredient is wild foxtail millet.
Why is the texture so dry?
The bitter aftertaste doesn't go away either.
Can I eat it if I consider it as medicine?
But to them, this is a godlike food.
Seems like this wild foxtail millet ramen might be popular.
What's going on?
I can smell something nice.
People have waged wars over pepper.
That's how fundamental food is to civilization.
RAMEN
I want to use the scientific food, ramen,
to rule this village.
You look completely like a villain.
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THIS IS A WORK OF FICTION.
MATERIALS AND METHODS ARE BASED ON REALITY.
DO NOT ATTEMPT FOR YOUR SAFETY.
Subtitle translation by: Coleen Chua